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Christisking Member
Joined: 2005/7/20 Posts: 671 Los Angeles, California
| Re: | | H. A. Ironside
Some years ago a fearful railroad wreck took a dreadful toll of life and limb in an eastern state. A train, loaded with young people returning from school, was stalled on a suburban track because of what is known as a hot-box. The limited was soon due, but a flagman was sent back to warn the engineer in order to avert a rear-end collision. Thinking all was well, the crowd laughed and chatted while the train-hands worked on in fancied security. Suddenly the whistle of the limited was heard and on came the heavy train and crashed into the local, with horrible effect. The engineer of the limited saved his own life by jumping, and some days afterwards was hailed into court to account for his part in the calamity. And now a curious discrepancy in testimony occurred. He was asked, Did you not see the flagman warning you to stop? He replied, I saw him, but he waved a yellow flag, and I took it for granted all was well, and so went on, through slowing down.. The flagman was called, What flag did you wave? A red flag, but he went by me like a shot. Are you sure it was red? Absolutely. Both insisted on the correctness of their testimony, and it was demonstrated that neither was color-blind. Finally the man was asked to produce the flag itself as evidence. After some delay he was able to do so, and then the mystery was explained. It had been red, but it had been exposed to the weather so long that all the red was bleached out, and it was but a dirty yellow! Oh, the lives eternally wrecked by the yellow gospels of the daythe bloodless theories of unregenerate men that send their hearers to their doom instead of stopping them on their downward road! Illustrations of Bible Truth by H. A. Ironside, Moody Press, 1945, pp. 62-63 _________________ Patrick Ersig
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2005/8/19 21:46 | Profile |
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Joined: 2002/12/11 Posts: 39795 Canada
Online! | Re: | | "And what is wrong with the old method of scaring the ungodly with a sermon on hell?" Vance Havner
"There is a lot of soft, sentimental talk about Him today that brings no conviction. When Isaiah saw the Lord, he did not feel comfortable! Neither did Habakkuk nor Daniel nor Paul nor John. We want a picture of Him today that does not disturb us, that smiles at sin, and winks at iniquity. I remember a man who told me he wanted to hear no hell-fire sermons but rather about the meek and lowly Jesus. Yet the poor man did not seem to realize that the meek and lowly Jesus said more about hell than is reported from the lips of anyone else in the Bible! We need a true and complete vision of God in His holiness and Christ in His glory that will bring us to repentance." Vance Havner _________________ SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
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2005/8/20 1:00 | Profile |
| Re: | | This is a quote from a one-off sermon I heard quite a few years ago. The preacher said
'Everyone is a clay mask, and behind it, a spirit [i][b]burning[/b][/i]. What spirit burns in you?' |
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Online! | Re: | | "Witnessing is the whole work of the whole church for the whole age." -A.T. Pierson _________________ SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
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2005/8/21 20:54 | Profile |
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Online! | Re: | | "Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue." -Martin Luther _________________ SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
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2005/8/24 12:03 | Profile |
ginnyrose Member
Joined: 2004/7/7 Posts: 7534 Mississippi
| Re: | | Spiritual maturity is reached when obedience [to God and His word] becomes a joy. - Jesse Yoder _________________ Sandra Miller
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2005/8/25 19:54 | Profile |
allhavsinned Member
Joined: 2005/8/1 Posts: 201 North West England
| Re: | | As best as I can remember, B.H. Clendennen said this..
In acts the apostles prayed for 10 days then preached for 10 minutes and 3000 people were saved. Today pastors pray for 10 minutes then preach for 10 days and wonder why no-one is saved. ;-) _________________ Ste
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2005/8/25 20:40 | Profile |
arielle Member
Joined: 2004/1/15 Posts: 52 usa
| Re: | | "the mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on."
[i]~ t. austin sparks[/i] _________________ arielle
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2005/8/26 11:36 | Profile |
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Online! | Re: | | It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. -George Whitefield _________________ SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
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2005/8/29 3:08 | Profile |
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Online! | Re: | | All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity. -George Whitefield _________________ SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
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2005/8/29 3:09 | Profile |